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Book Chapter: The art of losing: Beyond java, patois and postvernacular vitality – Repositioning the periphery in global Asian ecologies
Title | The art of losing: Beyond java, patois and postvernacular vitality – Repositioning the periphery in global Asian ecologies |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Empowerment Patois Peranakans Postvernacular Sri Lanka Malay |
Issue Date | 2016 |
Publisher | John Benjamins |
Citation | The art of losing: Beyond java, patois and postvernacular vitality – Repositioning the periphery in global Asian ecologies. In Filipović, Luna & Pütz, Martin (Eds.), Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights, p. 283-312. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2016 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper discusses issues in endangerment and postvernacularity in the context of Asia, a region with complex dynamics in multilingual ecologies that also includes the presence – dominance – of English, a language that entered the ecologies through colonisation. I use as illustration two minority communities with endangered vernaculars – the Malays of Sri Lanka, brought from various parts of the Malay archipelago by the Dutch and British colonial powers, and their vernacular Sri Lanka Malay, traditionally known as java, a mixed language of trilingual base (Malay, Sinhala, Tamil); and the Peranakans, descendants of southern Chinese merchants who settled in Malaya and intermarried with local women, and their vernacular Baba Malay, a restructured variety of Malay with southern Sinitic influences, usually referred to as patois. I query if linguistic and cultural loss is inevitable, or if such situations of shift – to a language of wider communication or an emergent variety – are in fact instances of empowerment and evolution in response to change, where a repositioning of the periphery in the new global economy brings greater accessibility to and participation in the Centre, and better adaptation for surviving and thriving. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/211595 |
ISBN | |
ISSN | 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.120 |
Series/Report no. | IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society; 42 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Lim, LLS | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-07-21T02:04:09Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-07-21T02:04:09Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The art of losing: Beyond java, patois and postvernacular vitality – Repositioning the periphery in global Asian ecologies. In Filipović, Luna & Pütz, Martin (Eds.), Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights, p. 283-312. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9789027258342 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1385-7908 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/211595 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper discusses issues in endangerment and postvernacularity in the context of Asia, a region with complex dynamics in multilingual ecologies that also includes the presence – dominance – of English, a language that entered the ecologies through colonisation. I use as illustration two minority communities with endangered vernaculars – the Malays of Sri Lanka, brought from various parts of the Malay archipelago by the Dutch and British colonial powers, and their vernacular Sri Lanka Malay, traditionally known as java, a mixed language of trilingual base (Malay, Sinhala, Tamil); and the Peranakans, descendants of southern Chinese merchants who settled in Malaya and intermarried with local women, and their vernacular Baba Malay, a restructured variety of Malay with southern Sinitic influences, usually referred to as patois. I query if linguistic and cultural loss is inevitable, or if such situations of shift – to a language of wider communication or an emergent variety – are in fact instances of empowerment and evolution in response to change, where a repositioning of the periphery in the new global economy brings greater accessibility to and participation in the Centre, and better adaptation for surviving and thriving. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | John Benjamins | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights | - |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society; 42 | - |
dc.subject | Empowerment | - |
dc.subject | Patois | - |
dc.subject | Peranakans | - |
dc.subject | Postvernacular | - |
dc.subject | Sri Lanka Malay | - |
dc.title | The art of losing: Beyond java, patois and postvernacular vitality – Repositioning the periphery in global Asian ecologies | - |
dc.type | Book_Chapter | - |
dc.identifier.email | Lim, LLS: lisalim@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Lim, LLS=rp01169 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1075/impact.42.12lim | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 245153 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 269237 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 283 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 312 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1385-7908 | - |